James hilton



UNITED STATES-'- PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES HILTON, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

CROSSCUT-SAW HANDLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,391, dated July 19, 1881. Application filed January 19., 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES HILTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Orosscut-Saw Handles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in crosscut-saw handles; and it consists in a block hollowed to fit a round handle in two directions at right angles to each other, and pro vided with a slot to fit the saw-blade and a bolt and nut to clamp the handle and block to the saw.

By reference to the annexed drawings, the nature of my invention will be fully understood, as Figure 1 shows an edge view of the entire fixtures for attaching a wooden handle to a saw-blade, the view being taken at the end of the slot in the block A. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, attached to a crosscut-saw in the ordinary position. Fig. 3 is a view of the slot- .ted side of the block; Fig. 4, a view of the hollowed side of the block, showing the intersectin g grooves a a provided to hold the han-. dle H respectively in a line or at right angles with the slot 1). Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a handle attached to a saw-blade transversely; and Fig. 6, a plan of a saw havingthe handle secured to it transversely and projecting equally at each side of the saw, for cutting ice or pit-sawing.

The block is constructed, as shown, with the slot for the saw-blade upon the side opposite the two grooves or hollows, a a, each of which is suitably shaped to fit a plain round bar of wood, H, which may thus be fitted into the block by its end or middle and by either of the two grooves.

The slot b is formed in the center of one side of the block, and is intersected by the bolthole 0, which is placed at theintersection of the hollows a a.

The bolt Bis formed with an eye or split end, d, where it embraces the saw upon the slotted side of the block and with a thread and nut, (J, upon the grooved side, and the handle is provided with a hole, h, forthebolt, at its middle or end, as desired. When placed in either groove the handle and bolt are firmly clamped to the saw by putting a rivet or bolt, 0, through the eye d and securing the nut against the handle, a common washer being placed beneath the nut upon the wood.

By this mode of construction the wooden handle is easily replaced if broken, and requiresnospecialshape. Itmayalsobechanged from either groove to the other, without detaching the block and bolt from the saw, by simply loosening the nut O, and may also be readily transferred from one blade to another by removing the pin or bolt 0.

Should the bolt get lost any nail or screw will suffice to fill its place, and the fixture is thus adapted for use when an accident would render other structures useless. It requires, also, but a single hole in the saw-blade for its attachment, and is thus much more readily applied to the saw than a bolt with two prongs, requiring two holes a certain distance apart.

The drawings show the universal application of my handle attachment, as it affords a means of applying the end handle in every required position upon a crosscut-saw.

The block and split bolt are exceedingly simple in construction, and any round bar of wood may be fitted to the grooves or hollows a a as a handle and arranged to project any desired distance in the required direction.

Having thus fully described my invention, I desire to claim the same in the following The fixture for attaching handles to crosscut-saws, substantially as shown and described, consisting of the block A, having the hollows a a formed upon one side, and the single slot 1) for the saw-blade upon the opposite side, in combination with the split or slotted bolt B inserted through the block at the intersection of the hollows a a, and provided with a. not 

